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LETTERS

Saving Sex-Trafficking Victims

Our Readers & Noy Thrupkaew

EDITORIALS & COMMENTS

Break Up the Banks: Editorial

To reform the financial sector, we must break up "too big to fail" conglomerates and reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act.

Deficit Hawk Hysteria: Comment

William Greider | The time to pay down the deficit will come only after the economy recovers.

Noted.

States sound off for instant runoff voting; activists unite for the International Day of Climate Action; and we remember an American radical who fought the "good fight" against fascism in Spain.

Big League Blues: Comment

Dave Zirin | The NFL is only the highest-profile example of the economic crisis pervading the world of sports.

Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce Incarceration: Ten Things

Come out of the closet about your drug use; hire a formerly incarcerated person; vote for politicians who are smart on crime.

COLUMNS

'U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid'

Calvin Trillin | The Wall Street types consider this unfair--they say they earned their money fair and square.

The Right to Remain Naked?

Alexander Cockburn | Obsessions over sex have little to do with sexual behavior and everything to do with policing.

Working Women: Strength in Numbers

Katha Pollitt | First feminism was dead because it was a "failure"; now it's dead because it was such a success.

ARTICLES

Gorbachev on 1989

Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen F. Cohen | A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.

The Generation That Failed

Slavenka Drakulic | Yugoslavs were unprepared for the surge of nationalism that followed Tito's communist rule.

Latvia's Tiger Economy Loses Its Bite

Kristina Rizga | The economic meltdown has Latvians reconsidering decades of neoliberal policies.

BOOKS & THE ARTS

Empire Falls

Ronald Grigor Suny | The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.

The Last Yugoslav

Richard Byrne | When Yugoslavia disintegrated, so too did the film career of Dusan Makavejev.

Identity Theft

Dara Wier

The End of the Story?

Lars T. Lih | Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.

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